Avoiding harassment when shooting in the street

[Tin Can]

Street is done and gone

No way am I ever doing it again

I was going to photogragh a Historical Village very close to me, owned and run by a local JR College

BUT they have combined Hunting and Fishing Days, that is the official name, with the very calm Historical Village Spring event

WAY More hunters show up

I will duck and cover and photogragh when that weekend is done

There was 500 people behind me on campus all very young

For this Civil War Cannon

Shot with historical camera posted today

Civil War Cannon firing by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[Drew Wiley]

A particular refinery not far from here looks especially photogenic, but you can't approach it at all. They aren't worried about industrial spies, but about sheer legal liability due to an accidental release or fire incident, which does sometimes happen.
I've gotten up on a hill behind it with a long telephoto, but it's not the perspective I want. And besides, refineries put out a lot or haze and smoke obscuring the details from far away.

Solar farms out in the desert can be quite contentious. Out by the CA/NV border there's a big one right atop endangered desert tortoise habitat which has brought angry protestors, along with complaints of spoiling the view from the ridges of a nearby Wilderness Area. I hate what solar farms do to views too, but am not a Monkey Wrench Gang type. And a least they're hypothetically removable, unlike more hydro dams, which are starved of water in the Southwest now anyway.

[Tin Can]

Factory 1 by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[GuillaumeZuili]

To avoid harassment in Los Angeles, it is to be the fastest possible when I decide to take a picture. Meaning no tripod, this is where the graflex super D shines. You can really act fast.
No matter how fast cops came twice. It went well because they laughed at that camera and I gave it to them to look it through the viewfinder. That thing breaks the barrier !
But you never know, the third time might no be the same.

[drj52]

To avoid harassment in Los Angeles, it is to be the fastest possible when I decide to take a picture. Meaning no tripod, this is where the graflex super D shines. You can really act fast.
No matter how fast cops came twice. It went well because they laughed at that camera and I gave it to them to look it through the viewfinder. That thing breaks the barrier !
But you never know, the third time might no be the same.

It should have gone well simply because you weren’t breaking the law. They have to investigate if they get a call, but they shouldn’t need to do anything more than ask a couple questions. Even checking your ID is a step too far.

[Drew Bedo]

I have not actually done any street photography with a tripod and LF camera . . .

But I might think about getting a high nvisability vest like street workers use, along with a yellow hard hat and a few orange cones. The idea is that if you lok like you are authorized, there will be less bother.

[Tin Can]

Drew, I have friends that moved to Houstin last winter

Both got good inside jobs

No idea what your work was

but outside workers dress for the weather with scuffed work boots

drive a white pick me up

white hard hat

and learn how to pitch your voice to a coworker's ears in noise

Full size dirty cone

Clip board, pencils, Biz Cards, give them to everybody

Carry the Habs rules and spin a story to fit

I always had magnitic signs for my truck

50 years ago I was 'Randy's Rolling Repair'

be very honest and don't gawk the ladies

Bring prints to your people

give them away

they will help you

I was a winter Texan for years camped next to https://www.amazon.com/s?k=confedera...l_8u33pev78c_b

I have not actually done any street photography with a tripod and LF camera . . .

But I might think about getting a high nvisability vest like street workers use, along with a yellow hard hat and a few orange cones. The idea is that if you lok like you are authorized, there will be less bother.

[jnantz]

I have not actually done any street photography with a tripod and LF camera . . .

But I might think about getting a high nvisability vest like street workers use, along with a yellow hard hat and a few orange cones. The idea is that if you lok like you are authorized, there will be less bother.

Not on the street but 30 yards off a main road, just the other day I pulled off the road into the breakdown lane / shoulder, put flashers on, and a cone out, I spent 3 minutes out of my car taking 2 photographs with what I had handy as preliminary photographs, and 2 police cruisers questioned why I was on land that is supposed to be public land. Strange days ahead.

[Michael R]

I’ve had this sort of crap doing urban landscape photography many times, not only with the fuzz, but occasionally subway ‘cops’ and security guards. I found it worst from a # of incidents perspective in the years following nine-eleven, but the level of danger is probably higher now when it comes to the likelihood of being shot or clubbed or choked or shaken down by the law here.

Not on the street but 30 yards off a main road, just the other day I pulled off the road into the breakdown lane / shoulder, put flashers on, and a cone out, I spent 3 minutes out of my car taking 2 photographs with what I had handy as preliminary photographs, and 2 police cruisers questioned why I was on land that is supposed to be public land. Strange days ahead.

[Tin Can]

Last time I was in Montreal was 2008

I was amazed how the junkies were camping on sidewalks

and openly sell junk

I like the underground

but why no train from airport?

I’ve had this sort of crap doing urban landscape photography many times, not only with the fuzz, but occasionally subway ‘cops’ and security guards. I found it worst from a # of incidents perspective in the years following nine-eleven, but the level of danger is probably higher now when it comes to the likelihood of being shot or clubbed or choked or shaken down by the law here.